With widening participation plans and outreach schemes, unis say they’re doing everything they can to fix this. But there are still universities with shockingly low stats on social diversity, new analysis in the Sunday Times Good University Guide has revealed.

We've focused on the six unis who scored the worst on the Sunday Times' overall measure of social inclusion. The measure combines a number of different stats, including proportions of students from non-selective state schools, ethnic minorities, working class backgrounds, and deprived areas.

Oxford

10 per cent of Oxford students are from working-class backgrounds, worse than any other uni in the rankings, and a shocking 4.1 per cent of students are from deprived areas.

Only Queen’s University Belfast has a lower proportion of state school students than Oxford’s 39.4 per cent.

How the least socially inclusive unis rank for letting in non-selective state school students:

Cambridge

Doing marginally better than Oxford, working class students take up only 10.2 per cent of Cambridge's student body, and 4.4 per cent are from deprived areas.

Wealthy private school pupils continue to dominate the campus as 40.1 per cent of Cambridge students went to state schools.

It's something that can reflect in the culture. Tom Rasmussen, a northern and working-class student spoke of being made to feel unwelcome when joining Cambridge last year. "Professors, teachers and lecturers were shocked by my accent, my mode of speaking and reasoning," he wrote in the Independent. "One Director of Studies asked me if ‘Cambridge was really the right place for someone like me'."

Bristol

Coming in third place for the worst economic equality, 14.2 per cent of Bristol students are working class, and only 5.2 per cent of students are from deprived areas.

How the least socially inclusive unis rank for letting in working class students:

Durham

Only 14.2 per cent of Durham students are working class, and a tiny 6.4 per cent are from deprived areas.

The population of students who went to non-selective state schools is a mere 46.4 per cent. Nearly 1/3 of Durham students are privately educated, despite the fact they only represent seven per cent of all pupils in secondary education.

St. Andrews

Once home to literal princes and princesses, St. Andrews has failed to shed its royal reputation as only 14.2 per cent of its students are from working-class backgrounds, and 3.5 per cent are from deprived areas.

54 per cent of the university's students come from state schools. Therefore it is hardly surprising that The Scotsman's comment section branded St. Andrews students as “Country-Club Kids”, “Kids from the Shires”, “The Elite Below Oxbridge,” and so on.

How the least socially inclusive unis rank for letting in students from the most economically deprived areas of the country:

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is yet another top university where the social divide is huge. 18.7 per cent of the student population is working class with 4.1 per cent from deprived areas.

In 2012/13, 67.7 per cent of Edinburgh students were accepted from state schools. This year The Times recorded that the intake was only 60.2 per cent. It seems as if universities are taking steps backwards, and university remains a middle-class affair.